Question

I would like to allow the user to logout and redirect him directly to the login page. In Django User Authenication Page(https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/),

logout_then_login(request[, login_url])
Logs a user out, then redirects to the login page.

URL name: No default URL provided

Optional arguments:

login_url: The URL of the login page to redirect to. Defaults to settings.LOGIN_URL if not supplied.

The problem i face is then i click the page, it reloads the page instead of going to the login page.

My code is below:

@login_required
def main(request):
    """
    main view
    """

    path = reverse('home', kwargs={'userpk': request.user.pk})

    return HttpResponseRedirect(path)

@login_required
def home(request, userpk):
    """
    home page view
    """

    if int(userpk) != request.user.pk:
        return HttpResponseForbidden()

    return render(request,
                  'lex/main.html',
                  dictionary={'user': request.user,
                              'userpk': userpk})
def logoutnlogin(request):
    """
    Logout n login back
    """
    return logout_then_login(request,login_url=main(request))

I think i am doing some mistake not sure where.. Need some guidance…

Answer 1

You have to provide url of login page, so the line should be

return logout_then_login(request,login_url='/login'))

Assuming /login is your login url, or you can use reverse with name of your login url in urls.py